>>106142217She was coming from Ciudad del Este, in Paraguay. It's the smuggling capital of South America, there are entire markets of smuggled goods where you can get phones from cheap (most of them stolen). Her goal was probably to resell them at a higher price in Brazil.
Here in Argentina, there is a saying, if you have your phone stolen, you can probably buy it back in Ciudad del Este kek. Immigrants come from Paraguay, steal shit here, and then resell it there. And of course the people that go to shop there are also at fault because they sustain that ""industry"".
>>106149301They get the phones for free through the five finger discount, most of the shit in Ciudad del Este is stolen. No import taxes my ass.